Henry Brown Graham IV, Ph.D.
Professor Graham comes to CMU after a long and interesting career in
the arts and archaeology. Trained at Princeton University where he
earned his A.B. in European Civilization and his M.F.A and Ph.D. in Art
and Archaeology, he has taught at Washington University in St. Louis
where he organized an exhibit of medieval illuminated manuscripts and at
New College of the University of South Florida where he set up the
Medieval Fair which was attended by 10,000 people and continues to this
day. While there, he took 31 students to Italy for a full semester in
the European Workshop program and later became involved in underwater
archaeology, diving on and excavating an American Revolutionary warship
in Penobscot Bay in Maine. Then as chairman of the Art Department at
Trinity University in San Antonio he established a majors program in Art
History and was appointed Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Nautical
Archaeology based at Texas A. & M. University. In that capacity he took
part in diving excavations of ancient Roman and medieval shipwrecks in
the Mediterranean.
After seventeen years as a university professor, Dr. Graham, with his
wife Claudia and their children, decided to make their home on a 33-foot
sailboat which they equipped for world cruising. They sailed from Texas
to the Florida Keys, the Bahamas, Bermuda, across the Atlantic to
England, the canals of France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Spain,
Madeira, the Canary Islands, and back across the Atlantic to the
Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, all in a voyage that lasted nearly six
years, three of which were spent in the Mediterranean.
The Grahams then settled in northern California where they raised Tuscan
olives and Dr. Graham taught at a middle school where he also ran the
Gifted and Talented program, produced a daily on-campus television
broadcast, and sponsored the National Geographic Bee. In 2005, the
Grahams moved back to a farm south of Fayette that has been in the
family for six generations. After building a house and settling in, Dr.
Graham was appointed to teach the history of art at Central. He is also
on the executive boards of the Ashby-Hodge Gallery of American Art and
the Fayette Area Heritage Association.
